CONTENTS:-Part I: Word, World and Perception1. Word and Beyond: Questions of Meaning and Interpretation2. Theory of Creative Process in Narratives about the Ramayana and the Mahabharata: Mythic Narrative as a Mode of Constituting Knowledge3. Aesthetics, Ethics and Indian Culture

Part II: Colonialism and After4. India Self-(re)fashioning and Colonialism: Resistance and Polyvalence in the Nineteenth- Century Gujarati and Hindi Renaissance Prose Writings5. Ornament or Blessing or Both: The Other in Colonial Paradigms with Reference to India6. Theorizing/Narrating Resistance and Colonization in India7. Knowledge, Globalization and Third World: An Indian Contextual Discourse8. Towards a New Framework of Literary Studies in Post-Colonial India

Part III: Literature and Theorizing in India9. In Their Own Words and Worlds: Women Saint Poets and their Poetry10. Self or Motherhood: Feminist Discourse in India 11. Constructing an Indian theory of Feminism: Problems and Potentialities12. Towards an Indian Theory of Post-colonialism

Part IV: Criticism and India13. Continuity and Change in Indian Critical Tradition14. Rethinking Literary Theory in India 15. Postmodernism in India 16. Towards Compoetics in India: Alternative Frameworks of Comparative Study of Poetics

DESCRIPTION

The declining decades of the 20th century witnessed discussion of various issues pertaining to colonialism, postcolonialism, literary criticism and aesthetics in India. The present book in its four parts "Word, World and Perception", "Colonialism and After", "Literature and Theorizing in India", and "Criticism and India" deals with them and ancillary issues; and in the process of revisiting them not only critiques their constructs but also proposes alternative constructs in the context of Indian realities and their manifestations in creative and critical terms.